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Essays 361 - 390
has changed into that of "practicalism" which she describes as a way of thinking that "arises from and is tested against practices...
of Wicca, a matriarchal based religion. When one studies the ancient belief systems in which the goddesses were worshiped it is no...
is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...
fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...
page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...
The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...
my aunt shut me up in the red-room", Jane receives only comments that she should feel very lucky about living in such a fine home ...
born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore to Arnold Rich, a doctor and pathology professor and Helen Jones Rich, a pianist and composer. She ...
Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...
he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...
the Victory of the Jews. The unknown author seems to have drawn on the Exodus narrative, especially Exodus 14:31 as well as from ...
men who had money if they wished to do more than survive. Women did not work, save as servants and perhaps teachers, and as such t...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...
a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...
that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...
conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...
which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...
support rigid and inhumane practices toward women. Celebrating diversity should not extend to an embracing of those ideologies, no...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
They have mixed emotions after an acquaintance rape, and if their own husband is responsible for the rape, they question whether o...
of men, she was sexually attracted to women and made no attempt to hide her lesbianism, much to the shock of her Victorian contemp...
7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...
how old and new discourses about sex are portrayed within the context of a "televisual apparatus" (134). This refers to how the v...
freedom that I am today had I not begun to oppose that gendered notion of learning that suggests that politics is the realm of mal...
accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...
tattooed persons is geared at a specific subset of this group whose antisocial actions (i.e. criminality) have created such a bias...
rates. Because women were finding themselves capable of being self-sufficient, there came a new outlook on relationships and the ...
81). Later on, feminism would hold that the home was not the center of the womans world. At that time however, women were not read...